Monday, 2008-07-28, Copenhagen
Microsoft to acquire DATAllegro! Yes and I just got this message in my box this morning. So the Data Warehousing market is having another round of re-ordering. It seems that Microsoft SQL Server team has been trying hard to find good solution to hold more than 20 TB of data in their system and the conclusion is that: “Well, since we cannot do that, let’s buy an existing opponent to deal with that.” I would guess that the SQL Server solution for data warehousing will become more popular in the market and we will see how the next version of SQL Server 2008 can include the technologies in DATAllegro platform.
Where is the source of all kinds of database research? Well, one can try to look into all the different universities (esp. the old ones) in the world and find if their department pages include some great names in the faculty list. One interesting blog-note that I just found recently is in the Stanford DB-blog (http://infoblog.stanford.edu/2008/07/database-research-principles-revealed.html) which is a very good understanding of different principles of doing database research. I guess this can be a classic note for most DB research newbees to learn.
VMWare just changed their CEO from Diane Greene to Paul Maritz. From a small start-up to a company with $1bn revenues, Greene has contributed a lot to the VMWare’s big growth. But, just like any other successful start-ups, it comes the time that the whole strategy of the company needs to be changed. Now, facing more challenges from Citrix and Microsoft, let’s just hope the new CEO can keep the company in good health.
Google to challenge Wikipedia? Why not! Google has formally released the “Knol” which is an alternative encyclopedia thing to Wikipedia. Actually this new tool includes some news thoughts from Google on how social collaboration should work and benefit people. Knol writers can make money by using AdSense program. What is more interesting is that Google also has an agreement with the New Yorker magazine and allows any author to add one cartoon per knoll from the New Yorker’s cartoon bank.
After the failure of acquiring Yahoo!, Microsoft is looking for another alternative to build up good web search engines for the future business. It has recently agreed to acquire a start-up company, “Powerset” to strength its free Live Search service. Seems that Microsoft is looking for another life-reboot like what Google did sometime ago.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
What's new in week 30, 2008
Monday, 2008-07-21, Copenhagen
If we think of what has been for PC developers in the past 20 years, Microsoft is at least one of the major eyehole-attraction vendors (I could think of linux as another potential). Now Google is joining the game. People have been talking about Google deploying dynamic language runtime just like what MS has been doing. Well, it looks really difficult for a start-up developer to choose which way to go.
Friday, 2008-07-25, Copenhagen
Oracle to look at ECM? Not a surprise. The enterprise software market has been experiencing a lot of acquisitions in the past 3 years. ECM is always a big cake for giants to share. Oracle has just announced that it will acquire Skywire Software’s business on application software. The acquisition will improve Oracle’s content management business. Another benefit is that the insurance software of Skywire is also added to Oracle’s insurance business software suite. It seems that SAS will start feeling panic of losing its business in the insurance market.
Microsoft has recently announced its acquisition of a Portugal-based private company MobiComp to enhance its strength in mobile data protection and sharing services technology and business. After Gate’s leave, Microsoft is continuing its movement towards the mobile market.
Oracle is getting more money at the recession world? Well, according to a recent report, Oracle sales and profits actually grew over 20 percent for the 2008 fiscal year, which is the highest growth rate in 10 years. Well, are we in an IT recession time?
Revenge from RealNetworks! Online music store Rhapsody, owned by RealNetworks is launching DRM free downloads. So Apple’s iTune is not the only one controlling the market any more. We will see how RealNetworks approaches consumers’ mobile phones and MP3 players in the near future.
Indian IT services giant Infosys has just expanded its education center in Mysore with upto $380m facility. It seems that outsourcing market is fast growing especially in the recent years and the Indian company is aware of its great potential in this scenario.
AMD has a new CEO! What a great piece of news to Intel’s biggest rival. Well, it is hardly great. We definitely need AMD to keep Intel running on the technology world. Let us just hope the new chief, Meyer, is able to bring the company back to profit after 8 successive quarters of losses.
If we think of what has been for PC developers in the past 20 years, Microsoft is at least one of the major eyehole-attraction vendors (I could think of linux as another potential). Now Google is joining the game. People have been talking about Google deploying dynamic language runtime just like what MS has been doing. Well, it looks really difficult for a start-up developer to choose which way to go.
Friday, 2008-07-25, Copenhagen
Oracle to look at ECM? Not a surprise. The enterprise software market has been experiencing a lot of acquisitions in the past 3 years. ECM is always a big cake for giants to share. Oracle has just announced that it will acquire Skywire Software’s business on application software. The acquisition will improve Oracle’s content management business. Another benefit is that the insurance software of Skywire is also added to Oracle’s insurance business software suite. It seems that SAS will start feeling panic of losing its business in the insurance market.
Microsoft has recently announced its acquisition of a Portugal-based private company MobiComp to enhance its strength in mobile data protection and sharing services technology and business. After Gate’s leave, Microsoft is continuing its movement towards the mobile market.
Oracle is getting more money at the recession world? Well, according to a recent report, Oracle sales and profits actually grew over 20 percent for the 2008 fiscal year, which is the highest growth rate in 10 years. Well, are we in an IT recession time?
Revenge from RealNetworks! Online music store Rhapsody, owned by RealNetworks is launching DRM free downloads. So Apple’s iTune is not the only one controlling the market any more. We will see how RealNetworks approaches consumers’ mobile phones and MP3 players in the near future.
Indian IT services giant Infosys has just expanded its education center in Mysore with upto $380m facility. It seems that outsourcing market is fast growing especially in the recent years and the Indian company is aware of its great potential in this scenario.
AMD has a new CEO! What a great piece of news to Intel’s biggest rival. Well, it is hardly great. We definitely need AMD to keep Intel running on the technology world. Let us just hope the new chief, Meyer, is able to bring the company back to profit after 8 successive quarters of losses.
Friday, July 11, 2008
What's new in week 28, 2008
Thursday, 2008-07-10, Copenhagen
Can iPhone be so popular in the mobile handset market? Well, guess Samsung Instinct is one of those that are trying out challenging this topic. By lowering down the price on 100 USD, it’s really hard to tell if iPhone can lead the market for a long time. Wait a minute, what does Nokia say here?
Microsoft has recently acquired a firm called Navic Networks, which is well into the interactive TV and advertising. Guess Microsoft has moved its strategy to the online/interactive marketing technology a bit. If we remember that online TV is not far away from us, this step may lead us to think that Microsoft is trying to take back the scenario of online advertisement that has been mostly occupies by Google.
Friday, 2008-07-11, Copenhagen
Nokia has the plan to acquire full parts of Symbian and make the platform free. Well, Symbian has been a major mobile platform and is now facing challenges from Microsoft as well as emerging platforms such as Google's Android. It seems that the giant mobile vendor is taking its steps to claim its impact of the market.
We have been hearing about the coming of new iPhone for 1 month. What about other vendors? Samsung and LG are already having their answers in the market. Samsung provides the "Instinct" brand while LG has the Dare, and these two companies are in corporation with other ISPs in the US area to compete iPhone+AT&T package.
Can iPhone be so popular in the mobile handset market? Well, guess Samsung Instinct is one of those that are trying out challenging this topic. By lowering down the price on 100 USD, it’s really hard to tell if iPhone can lead the market for a long time. Wait a minute, what does Nokia say here?
Microsoft has recently acquired a firm called Navic Networks, which is well into the interactive TV and advertising. Guess Microsoft has moved its strategy to the online/interactive marketing technology a bit. If we remember that online TV is not far away from us, this step may lead us to think that Microsoft is trying to take back the scenario of online advertisement that has been mostly occupies by Google.
Friday, 2008-07-11, Copenhagen
Nokia has the plan to acquire full parts of Symbian and make the platform free. Well, Symbian has been a major mobile platform and is now facing challenges from Microsoft as well as emerging platforms such as Google's Android. It seems that the giant mobile vendor is taking its steps to claim its impact of the market.
We have been hearing about the coming of new iPhone for 1 month. What about other vendors? Samsung and LG are already having their answers in the market. Samsung provides the "Instinct" brand while LG has the Dare, and these two companies are in corporation with other ISPs in the US area to compete iPhone+AT&T package.
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